Improved carbine-socket



PATENT OFFICE.

JOHN s. r. TAYLOR, OE OXFORD, OHIO.

IMPROVED CARBINE-SOOKET.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 48.462, dated June 1865.

To all whom it may concern: p

Be it known that I, JOHN 4S. I. TAYLOR, of Oxford, in the county of Butler and State of Ohio, have invented a certain Improvement in Carbine-Sockets, of which the following is a specification.

My invention has for its object to furnish a Carbine-socket which will not be injuriously af fected. by Water, but will retain its proper form, no matter to what amount of moisture it may be exposed, or for how long a time it may be thus exposed, and which, though compressed out of shape, will immediately regain its origi- -nal form upon the removal of the compressing force 5 and itconsists of a Carbine-socket, formed into the proper shape, of india-rubber cloth or its equivalent, as hereinafter more fully set forth.

In the drawings, Figure l is a side view of my improved socket with the strap and buckle attached. Fig. 2 is an end View of the same. Fig. 3 is a cross-section of the s cket, strap, and buckle through their centers. A is the strap,and B the buckle, which may be secured to the socket by broad-headed rivets, as represented in the drawings, or in any other suitable or known manner.

O is the socket, which is formed by winding cloth and rubber, or their equivalents, about a mold of the proper form, in the same manner as rubber goods are now manufactured, so that a section ot the socket will show alternate layers of cloth and rubber, as represented in Fig. 3, and made larger at the ends than iu the iniddle, as represented in Fig. 1. It is then bound over. at the edges and covered Within and without witlra coating of' india-rubber.

The advantages of my invention are'that my improved socket is impervious to water, and

consequently is unaffected by the amount of moisture to which' it may be exposechor the length ot'time said exposure may be continued; secondly, its elasticity, by which, however much` it may be compressed or crushed out of shape,it immediatelyregains its original form on the removal ot' the compressing or crushing force; and, thirdly,`the diminished cost ot' construction. 4rJhus by my invention I am en- 

